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This study explored the attitudes pre-service teachers held toward people with disabilities. The researcher conducted a survey methodology study via questionnaire of repeated measures design, using the respondents as their own controls.
The goal of this study was to find out if pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward people with disabilities were affected by descriptive labels such as “physical” disability or “mental” disability. In other words, did the type of disability affect the pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward that person?
Findings revealed that pre-service teachers had a more negative attitude toward people labeled with mental disabilities, and a more positive attitude toward people labeled with physical disabilities or toward people whose type of disability was not specified. In addition, findings revealed that Elementary Education pre-service teachers had a more positive attitude toward people with disabilities (regardless of the descriptive label) than did Secondary Education pre-service teachers.
Advisor: | Goeres, Ernest R. |
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School: | West Virginia University |
School Location: | United States -- West Virginia |
Source: | DAI-A 69/02, Dissertation Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | Special education, Teacher education |
Keywords: | Attitudes, Attitudes toward disabilities, Disabilities, Disability, Labels, Pre-service teachers, Preservice teachers |
Publication Number: | 3300882 |
ISBN: | 978-0-549-45853-1 |